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The Women’s Institute has a lot to answer for. Now Austria’s ski instructors have decided to live up to their saucy reputation on the slopes by issuing a calendar featuring naked portraits, pictured right. Buyers can choose either male or female instructors.

Droppings of the week

Two entrepreneurs from the Rhondda Valley and Caerphilly have succeeded in creating an environmentally friendly product that is completely Welsh: greetings cards made from sheep droppings. By mixing the sterilised waste with recycled paper they produce between one and two tons of new paper and cardboard a year. Their Sheep Poo Paper firm has now won a £20,000 Millennium Award for “social entrepreneurship”.

Computer mouse of the week

The Ulster Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is trying to track down a man who bit off the head of a mouse, chewed it and spat it out